Matty Healy has seemingly alluded to his brief romance with Taylor Swift and the singer’s penchant for writing songs about her personal life in a new interview with Joshua Citarella from the Doomscroll podcast.
Healy appeared on the podcast on October 22, 2024, and, though he did not mention Swift by name during his appearance, it seems like The 1975 frontman referenced their shortlived romance, which fans believe inspired various songs from The Tortured Poets Department.
"Last year, I became a way more well-known public figure for loads of different reasons,” Healy admitted, going on to add that “the only reason that I was interested in is kind of, like, what I was doing.”
Healy continued, saying: "I think that a lot of artists become very interested in their lore, or they become interested in the things that have happened outside of their art that people know about, and they want to address that [in their music.]”
While he admitted drawing inspiration from your personal experience is “fair enough," he said that route is not for him anymore.
"I would just be lying if I made a record about, I don’t know, all the stuff that was said about me or my casual romantic liaisons or whatever it may be that I’ve kind of become known for, just because I was famous," he said. "I think that that’s an obvious thing to draw from. And I’m just not interested in it.”
Healy also hammered in on the fact that making a record about something that happened to him but having to wait long periods of time for the final piece to be out, which he sees “people doing,” is, again, "not interesting” for him.
ICYMI: After some flirtations in the 2010s, Matty Healy and Taylor Swift were romantically linked in 2023 after she broke up with her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The duo made headlines in the spring before reportedly calling it quits in June. Swift then went on to date Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and Healy is now engaged to American model and musician Gabbriette.
When Swift released The Tortured Poets Department in April 2024, fans speculated multiple songs — including "Guilty as Sin?," "Fresh Out the Slammer," "I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)," and “loml” — could be, at least partly, about Healy. Healy was notoriously asked about his “diss tracks” by the paparazzi shortly after. “Oh, I haven't really listened to that much of it [the album], but I'm sure it's good," he said at the time.
